Review:
"A fascinating look into the mind of a passionately creative person, "Fleeting Gestures and Obsessions"is a gorgeous new tome that chronicles the myriad inspirations of the sublime shoemaker Manolo Blahnik."
-"1stDibs.com"
"Manolo Blahnik has developed a marvelous habit when it comes to storytelling . . . Each section of the book blends inspirations - a person, like Blahnik's late confidante Anna Piaggi, or a place, like El Caribe - with photographs of shoe designs they influenced, many of them shot by the designer's longtime friend and collaborator, Michael Roberts. . . All in all: "Perfection"!"
"-VOGUE"" --Vogue
"Manolo Blahnik has developed amarvelous habit when it comes to storytelling. . . Each section of the book blends inspirations - a person, like Blahnik's late confidante Anna Piaggi, or a place, like El Caribe - withphotographs of shoe designs they influenced, many of them shot by the designer's longtime friend and collaborator, Michael Roberts. . .All in all: "Perfection"!"
"-VOGUE
""A fascinating look into the mind of a passionately creative person, "Fleeting Gestures and Obsessions"is a gorgeous new tome that chronicles the myriad inspirations of the sublime shoemaker Manolo Blahnik."
-"1stDibs.com
""Manolo Blahnik is a master shoe craftsman and design visionary - all women know this fact. But "Manolo Blahnik: Fleeting Gestures and Obsessions"gives us more than just a glance into his impressive shoe collections through the years, which features more than 250 designs. The book also shows us how the man behind the iconic luxury brand works and how his work and inspirations evolved through the years."
-"NORTHERN VIRGINIA MAGAZINE"
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"A compendium of esoteric, exhilarating conversations between Blahnik and everyone from a Cambridge classicist and a Prado curator to Pedro Almodovar and Sofia Coppola. In the course of these meandering dialogues, Blahnik marvels at the fragility of Caligula's pearl-studded sandals, fixates on such art-historical minutiae as the toenails in Velasquez's "Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan," judges the naked feet of Alain Delon in "Purple Noon"to be 'divine, ' and grows delirious gazing at the original manuscript of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's "The Leopard," his favorite novel.""
-VANITY FAIR"
"Here's a gift for shoe lovers that will fit perfectly: a sumptuous coffee table book featuring a detailed pictorial of over four decades of haute heels and swanky stilettos from shoemaker extraordinaire, Manolo Blahnik. . . With a foreword written by the master himself, this book is so gorgeous it might require an upgrade to a coffee table worthy of its pages."
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""" --Bella New York Magazine
About the Author:
Manolo Blahnik is a shoe designer and founder of his eponymous shoe brand. Pedro Almodovar is a film director. Mary Beard is a Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge. Sofia Coppola is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and actress. Rafael Moneo is a Spanish architect. Andre Leon Talley is the former American editor-at-large for Vogue magazine. Michael Roberts is a British fashion journalist, illustrator, photographer, and film director.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.